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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
December 7 is the 341st day of the year (342nd
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
24 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
43 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated
in Formia. ·
574 – Byzantine
Emperor Justin II, suffering
recurring seizures of insanity, adopts his general Tiberius and
proclaims him as Caesar.[1] ·
1703 – The Great Storm of 1703,
the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain,
makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die. ·
1724 – Tumult of
Thorn: Religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor
of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish
authorities. ·
1732 – The Royal Opera House opens
at Covent Garden,
London, England. ·
1776 – Gilbert
du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American
military as a major general. ·
1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to
ratify the United States
Constitution. ·
1837 – The Battle of
Montgomery's Tavern, the only battle of the Upper Canada
Rebellion, takes place in Toronto, where the rebels are quickly
defeated.[2] ·
1842 – First concert
of the New York
Philharmonic, founded by Ureli Corelli Hill. ·
1869 – American
outlaw Jesse James commits
his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri. ·
1904 – Comparative
fuel trials begin between warships HMS Spiteful and HMS Peterel: Spiteful was
the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the
obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy. ·
1917 – World War I: The United States declares war
on Austria-Hungary. ·
1922 – The Parliament
of Northern Ireland votes to remain a part of the United Kingdom and not unify with Southern
Ireland. ·
1930 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video
from the CBS radio orchestra program, The
Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television
commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J.
Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show. ·
1932 – German-born
Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an
American visa. ·
1936 –
Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player
to score centuries in
four consecutive Test innings. ·
1941 – World War II: Attack on Pearl
Harbor: The Imperial Japanese
Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States
Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and
Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets,
see December 8.) ·
1942 – World War II:
British commandos conduct Operation Frankton,
a raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour. ·
1946 – A fire at the
Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the
deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history. ·
1949 – Chinese Civil War:
The Government
of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei, Taiwan. ·
1962 – Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution,
devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils. ·
1963 – Instant replay makes its debut during
the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, United States. ·
1965 – Pope Paul VI and Patriarch
Athenagoras I simultaneously
revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place
since 1054. ·
1971 – The Battle of Sylhet is fought between
the Pakistani military and
the Mukti Bahini.[3] ·
1971 – Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a
coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as
Deputy Prime Minister. ·
1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched.[4] The crew takes the
photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the
Earth.[5] ·
1982 – In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr.,
becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States. ·
1983 – An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with
an Aviaco DC-9 in
dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid–Barajas
Airport, killing 93 people. ·
1987 – Pacific
Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace
146-200A, crashes near Paso Robles,
California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger
shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and
steers the plane into the ground. ·
1988 – The 6.8 Ms Armenian
earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a
maximum MSK intensity
of X (Devastating), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000. ·
1993 – Long
Island Rail Road shooting: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six
people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County,
New York. ·
1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after
it was launched by Space
Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34. ·
2003 – The Conservative
Party of Canada is officially registered, following the
merger of the Canadian Alliance and
the Progressive
Conservative Party of Canada. ·
2005 – Rigoberto Alpizar,
a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a
bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air
marshals at Miami
International Airport. ·
2015 – The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully
enters orbit around Venus five years
after the first attempt. ·
2016 – Pakistan
International Airlines Flight 661, a domestic passenger flight
from Chitral to Islamabad, operated by ATR-42-500 crashes near Havelian, killing all 47 on board. ·
2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill to legally
recognize same-sex marriages is passed in Australia's parliament. Births[edit]
·
521 – Columba, Irish missionary, monk, and saint
(d. 597) ·
903 – Abd al-Rahman
al-Sufi, Persian astronomer and author (d. 986) ·
967 – Abū-Sa'īd
Abul-Khayr, Persian Sufi poet (d. 1049) ·
1302 – Azzone Visconti, Italian nobleman (d. 1339) ·
1532 – Louis
I, German nobleman and politician (d. 1605) ·
1545 – Henry Stuart,
English-Scottish husband of Mary, Queen of Scots (d.
1567) ·
1561 – Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyō (d.
1625) ·
1595 – Injo of Joseon, Korean king (d. 1649) ·
1598 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini,
Italian sculptor and painter (d. 1680) ·
1643 – Giovanni Battista
Falda, Italian architect and engraver (d. 1678) ·
1637 – Bernardo Pasquini,
Italian organist and composer (d. 1710) ·
1764 – Claude
Victor-Perrin, French general and politician (d. 1841) ·
1784 – Allan
Cunningham, Scottish author and poet (d. 1842) ·
1791 – Ferenc Novák,
Hungarian-Slovene priest and poet (d. 1836) ·
1792 – Abraham Jacob
van der Aa, Dutch author and academic (d. 1857) ·
1801 – Johann Nestroy, Austrian actor and
playwright (d. 1862) ·
1810 – Josef Hyrtl, Hungarian-Austrian anatomist
and biologist (d. 1894) ·
1810 – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist and
biologist (d. 1882) ·
1823 – Leopold Kronecker,
Polish-German mathematician and academic (d. 1891) ·
1838 – Thomas Bent, Australian businessman and
politician, 22nd Premier of Victoria (d.
1909) ·
1860 – Joseph Cook, English-born Australian
politician, 6th Prime
Minister of Australia (d. 1947) ·
1861 – Henri Mathias
Berthelot, French general during World War I (d. 1931) ·
1862 – Paul Adam,
French author (d. 1920) ·
1863 – Felix Calonder, Swiss soldier and
politician, 36th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1952) ·
1863 – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and
conductor (d. 1945) ·
1863 – Richard Warren Sears,
American businessman, co-founded Sears (d. 1914) ·
1869 – Frank Laver, Australian cricketer (d. 1919) ·
1873 – Willa Cather, American novelist, short story
writer, and poet (d. 1947) ·
1878 – Akiko Yosano, Japanese author, poet,
pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer (d. 1942) ·
1879 – Rudolf Friml, Czech-American pianist,
composer, and academic (d. 1972) ·
1884 – John Carpenter,
American sprinter (d. 1933) ·
1885 – Mason Phelps, American golfer (d. 1945) ·
1885 – Peter Sturholdt, American boxer and painter
(d. 1919) ·
1887 – Ernst Toch, Austrian-American composer and
songwriter (d. 1964) ·
1888 – Joyce Cary, Irish novelist (d. 1957)[6] ·
1888 – Hamilton Fish III,
American captain and politician (d. 1991) ·
1892 – Stuart Davis,
American painter and academic (d. 1964) ·
1893 – Fay Bainter, American actress (d. 1968) ·
1893 – Hermann Balck, German general (d. 1982) ·
1894 – Freddie Adkins, English author and
illustrator (d. 1986) ·
1900 – Kateryna
Vasylivna Bilokur, Ukrainian folk artist (d. 1961) ·
1902 – Hilda Taba, Estonian architect, author, and
educator (d. 1967) ·
1903 – Danilo Blanuša,
Croatian mathematician, physicist, and academic (d. 1987) ·
1904 – Clarence Nash, American voice actor and
singer (d. 1985) ·
1905 – Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-American astronomer and
academic (d. 1973) ·
1907 – Fred Rose,
Polish-Canadian politician and spy (d. 1983) ·
1909 – Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian poet and author
(d. 1942) ·
1910 – Duncan McNaughton,
Canadian high jumper and geologist (d. 1998) ·
1910 – Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter,
trumpet player, and actor (d. 1978) ·
1912 – Daniel Jones,
Welsh captain and composer (d. 1993) ·
1913 – Kersti Merilaas, Estonian author and poet
(d. 1986) ·
1915 – Leigh Brackett, American author and
screenwriter (d. 1978) ·
1915 – Eli Wallach, American actor (d. 2014) ·
1920 – Tatamkhulu Afrika,
South African poet and author (d. 2002) ·
1920 – Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist (d. 2012) ·
1920 – Walter Nowotny, Austrian-German soldier and
pilot (d. 1944) ·
1921 – Pramukh Swami
Maharaj, Indian guru and scholar (d. 2016) ·
1923 – Intizar Hussain, Indian-Pakistani author and
scholar (d. 2016) ·
1923 – Ted Knight, American actor and comedian (d.
1986) ·
1924 – John Love,
Zimbabwean race car driver (d. 2005) ·
1924 – Mary Ellen Estill. American mathematician
(d. 2013)[7] ·
1924 – Mário Soares, Portuguese historian, lawyer,
and politician, 17th President of
Portugal (d. 2017) ·
1924 – Bent Fabric, Danish pianist and composer (d.
2020) ·
1925 – Hermano da Silva
Ramos, French-Brazilian race car driver ·
1926 – William John
McNaughton, American bishop ·
1927 – Jack S. Blanton, American businessman and
philanthropist (d. 2013) ·
1927 – Helen Watts, Welsh opera singer (d. 2009) ·
1928 – Noam Chomsky, American linguist and
philosopher ·
1928 – Mickey Thompson, American race car driver
(d. 1988) ·
1930 – Christopher Nicole,
Guyanese-English author ·
1930 – Hal Smith,
American baseball player (d. 2020) ·
1931 – Allan B. Calhamer,
American game designer, created Diplomacy (d. 2013) ·
1931 – Bobby Osborne, American bluegrass singer and
musician ·
1932 – Ellen Burstyn, American actress ·
1932 – Oktay Ekşi, Turkish journalist and
politician ·
1932 – Rosemary Rogers, American journalist and
author ·
1932 – J. B. Sumarlin, Indonesian economist and
politician, 17th Indonesian
Minister of Finance ·
1932 – Bobby Whitton, Australian rugby league
player (d. 2008) ·
1933 – Krsto Papić, Croatian director and
screenwriter (d. 2013) ·
1935 – Armando Manzanero,
Mexican musician, singer and composer ·
1937 – Thad Cochran, American soldier, lawyer, and
politician (d. 2019) ·
1937 – Stan Boardman, English comedian ·
1940 – Gerry Cheevers, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach ·
1941 – Melba Pattillo Beals,
American journalist and activist ·
1942 – Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 1981) ·
1942 – Alex Johnson, American baseball player (d.
2015) ·
1942 – Peter Tomarken, American game show host and
producer (d. 2006) ·
1943 – Susan Isaacs, American author and
screenwriter ·
1943 – Nick Katz, American mathematician and
academic ·
1943 – Bernard C. Parks, American police officer
and politician ·
1943 – John Bennett Ramsey,
American businessman and pilot ·
1944 – Daniel Chorzempa, American organist and
composer ·
1944 – Miroslav Macek, Czech dentist and politician ·
1947 – Johnny Bench, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1947 – Anne Fine, English author ·
1947 – James Keach, American actor, producer, and
director ·
1947 – Garry Unger, Canadian ice hockey player and
sportscaster ·
1948 – Gary Morris, American country
singer-songwriter and actor ·
1948 – Tony Thomas,
American screenwriter and producer ·
1949 – James Rivière, Italian sculptor and jeweler ·
1949 – Tom Waits, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor ·
1950 – Ron Hynes, Canadian singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2015) ·
1952 – Susan Collins, American politician, senior
senator of Maine ·
1952 – Eckhard Märzke,
German footballer and manager ·
1954 – Mary Fallin, American businesswoman and
politician, 27th Governor of Oklahoma ·
1955 – John
Watkins, Australian educator and politician, 14th Deputy
Premier of New South Wales ·
1956 – Larry Bird, American basketball player and coach ·
1956 – Anna Soubry, British politician ·
1957 – Geoff Lawson,
Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster ·
1957 – Tom Winsor, English lawyer and civil servant ·
1957 – Tijjani
Muhammad-Bande, Nigerian career-diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly (2019) ·
1958 – Tim Butler, English bass player and
songwriter ·
1958 – Rick Rude, American wrestler and
sportscaster (d. 1999) ·
1959 – Saleem Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer ·
1960 – Craig Scanlon, English guitarist and
songwriter ·
1962 – Alain Blondel, French decathlete ·
1962 – Jeffrey Donaldson,
Northern Irish politician ·
1962 – Imad Mughniyah, Lebanese activist (d. 2008) ·
1963 – Theo Snelders, Dutch footballer and coach ·
1963 – Katsuya Terada, Japanese illustrator ·
1963 – Barbara Weathers, American R&B/soul
singer ·
1964 – Hugo Blick, English filmmaker ·
1964 – Patrick Fabian, American actor ·
1964 – Peter Laviolette, American ice hockey player
and coach ·
1965 – Deborah Bassett, Australian rower[8] ·
1965 – Colin Hendry, Scottish footballer and
manager ·
1965 – Jeffrey Wright,
American actor ·
1966 – C. Thomas Howell, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1966 – Shinichi Ito, Japanese motorcycle racer ·
1966 – Kazue Itoh, Japanese actress ·
1966 – Andres Kasekamp, Canadian-Estonian historian
and academic ·
1966 – Louise Post, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1967 – Mark Geyer, Australian rugby league player
and sportscaster ·
1967 – Tino Martinez, American baseball player,
coach, and sportscaster ·
1967 – Nina Turner, American politician ·
1971 – Vladimir Akopian, Azerbaijani-Armenian chess
player ·
1972 – Hermann Maier, Austrian skier ·
1972 – Tammy Lynn Sytch, American wrestler and
manager ·
1973 – İbrahim Kutluay,
Turkish basketball player ·
1973 – Hack Meyers, American wrestler and trainer
(d. 2015) ·
1973 – Terrell Owens, American football player and
actor ·
1973 – Fabien Pelous, French rugby player and coach ·
1973 – Damien Rice, Irish singer-songwriter,
musician and record producer ·
1974 – Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer and actress ·
1974 – Manuel Martínez
Gutiérrez, Spanish shot putter and actor ·
1975 – Jamie Clapham, English footballer and coach ·
1976 – Alan Faneca, American football player ·
1976 – Ivan Franceschini,
Italian footballer ·
1976 – Georges Laraque, Canadian ice hockey player
and politician ·
1976 – Derek Ramsay, Filipino-British actor, model
and television personality ·
1976 – Sunny Sweeney, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1976 – Benoît Tréluyer,
French race car driver ·
1977 – Eric Chavez, American baseball player and sportscaster ·
1977 – Luke Donald, English golfer ·
1977 – Dominic Howard, English drummer and producer ·
1978 – Shiri Appleby, American actress, director,
and producer ·
1978 – Suzannah Lipscomb,
English historian, academic and television presenter ·
1979 – Sara Bareilles, American singer-songwriter,
pianist, and actress ·
1979 – Lampros Choutos, Greek-Italian footballer ·
1979 – Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress and
screenwriter ·
1980 – John Terry, English footballer ·
1983 – Mike Mucitelli, American mixed martial
artist ·
1984 – Aaron Gray, American basketball player ·
1984 – Robert Kubica, Polish race car driver ·
1984 – Milan Michálek,
Czech ice hockey player ·
1984 – Luca Rigoni, Italian footballer ·
1985 – Jon Moxley, American wrestler ·
1986 – Billy Horschel, American golfer ·
1986 – Nita Strauss, American guitarist ·
1987 – Aaron Carter, American singer-songwriter,
dancer, and actor ·
1988 – Nathan Adrian, American swimmer ·
1988 – Angelina Gabueva, Russian tennis player ·
1988 – Emily Browning, Australian actress and
singer ·
1989 – Kyle Hendricks, American baseball player ·
1989 – Alessandro Marchi,
Italian footballer ·
1989 – Nicholas Hoult, English actor ·
1990 – David Goffin, Belgian tennis player ·
1990 – Aleksandr Menkov, Russian long jumper ·
1990 – Yasiel Puig, Cuban baseball player ·
1990 – Urszula
Radwańska, Polish tennis player ·
1991 – Eugenio Pisani, Italian race car driver ·
1993 – Rahama Sadau, Nigerian actress ·
1994 – Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater ·
1997 – Abi Harrison, Scottish footballer[9] ·
1997 – Tommy Nelson,
American actor ·
1998 – Tony Yike Yang, Canadian pianist Deaths[edit]
·
43 BC – Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, and
politician (b. 106 BC) ·
283 – Eutychian, pope of the Catholic Church ·
881 – Anspert, archbishop of Milan ·
983 – Otto II,
Holy Roman Emperor (b. 955) ·
1254 – Innocent IV, pope of the Catholic Church (b.
1195) ·
1279 – Bolesław
V, High Duke of Poland (b. 1226) ·
1295 – Gilbert
de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, English officer (b. 1243) ·
1383 – Wenceslaus
I, duke of Luxembourg (b. 1337) ·
1498 – Alexander Hegius
von Heek, German poet (b. 1433) ·
1562 – Adrian Willaert, Dutch-Italian composer and
educator (b. 1490) ·
1649 – Charles
Garnier, French missionary and saint (b. 1606) ·
1672 – Richard Bellingham,
English-American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor
of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1592) ·
1680 – Peter Lely, Dutch-English painter (b. 1618) ·
1683 – Algernon Sidney, English philosopher and
politician, Lord
Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1623) ·
1723 – Jan Santini Aichel,
Czech architect, designed the Pilgrimage
Church of Saint John of Nepomuk and Karlova Koruna
Chateau (b. 1677) ·
1725 – Florent Carton
Dancourt, French actor and playwright (b. 1661) ·
1772 – Martín Sarmiento,
Spanish monk, scholar, and author (b. 1695) ·
1775 – Charles
Saunders, English admiral and politician (b. 1715) ·
1793 – Joseph Bara, French soldier and drummer (b.
1779) ·
1803 – Küçük Hüseyin Pasha,
Turkish admiral and politician (b. 1757) ·
1815 – Michel Ney, German-French general (b. 1769) ·
1817 – William Bligh, English admiral and
politician, 4th Governor of
New South Wales (b. 1745) ·
1837 – Robert Nicoll, Scottish poet (b.1814) ·
1842 – Thomas Hamilton,
Scottish philosopher and author (b. 1789) ·
1874 – Constantin von
Tischendorf, German theologian, scholar, and academic (b. 1815) ·
1879 – Jón Sigurðsson,
Icelandic scholar and politician, 1st Speaker of the Parliament of Iceland (b. 1811) ·
1891 – Arthur Blyth, English-Australian politician,
9th Premier of
South Australia (b. 1823) ·
1894 – Ferdinand de Lesseps,
French businessman and diplomat, co-developed the Suez Canal (b. 1805) ·
1899 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter and sculptor (b.
1857) ·
1902 – Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (b.
1840) ·
1906 – Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and
educator, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1833) ·
1913 – Luigi
Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (b. 1828) ·
1917 – Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and
composer (b. 1826) ·
1918 – Frank Wilson,
English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of
Western Australia (b. 1859) ·
1941 – Attack on Pearl
Harbor: o Mervyn S. Bennion,
American captain (b. 1887) o Frederick Curtice
Davis, American sailor (b. 1915) o Julius Ellsberry, American sailor (b. 1921) o John C. England, American sailor (b. 1920) o Edwin J. Hill, American sailor (b. 1894) o Ralph Hollis, American sailor (b. 1906) o Herbert C. Jones, American sailor (b. 1918) o Isaac C. Kidd, American admiral (b. 1884) o Robert Lawrence
Leopold, American sailor (b. 1916) o Herbert Hugo Menges,
American sailor (b. 1917) o Thomas James Reeves,
American sailor (b. 1895) o Aloysius Schmitt, American priest and sailor
(b. 1909) o Robert R. Scott, American sailor (b. 1915) o Peter Tomich, American sailor (b. 1893) o Robert Uhlmann, American sailor (b. 1919) o Franklin Van
Valkenburgh, American captain (b. 1888) o Eldon P. Wyman, American sailor (b. 1917) ·
1947 – Tristan Bernard, French author and
playwright (b. 1866) ·
1947 – Nicholas Murray
Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1862) ·
1949 – Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and
water polo player (b. 1877) ·
1956 – Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor (b.
1887) ·
1956 – Reşat Nuri
Güntekin, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1889) ·
1960 – Ioannis Demestichas,
Greek admiral and politician (b. 1882) ·
1962 – Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer (b.
1895) ·
1969 – Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1897) ·
1969 – Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1903) ·
1970 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist,
sculptor, and author (b. 1883) ·
1975 – Thornton Wilder, American novelist and
playwright (b. 1897) ·
1975 – Hardie Albright, American actor (b. 1903) ·
1976 – Paul Bragg, American nutritionist (b. 1895) ·
1977 – Paul Gibb, English cricketer and umpire (b.
1913) ·
1977 – Peter Carl Goldmark,
Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1906) ·
1977 – Georges Grignard, French race car driver (b.
1905) ·
1978 – Alexander Wetmore,
American ornithologist and paleontologist (b. 1886) ·
1979 – Cecilia
Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist
(b. 1900) ·
1984 – LeeRoy Yarbrough, American race car driver (b.
1938) ·
1985 – J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and
journalist (b. 1906) ·
1985 – Robert Graves, English poet, novelist,
critic (b. 1895) ·
1985 – Potter Stewart, American soldier and jurist
(b. 1915) ·
1989 – Haystacks Calhoun,
American wrestler and actor (b. 1934) ·
1989 – Hans Hartung, French-German painter (b.
1904) ·
1990 – Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910) ·
1990 – Jean Paul Lemieux,
Canadian painter and educator (b. 1904) ·
1992 – Richard J. Hughes,
American politician, 45th Governor of New
Jersey, and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (b.
1909) ·
1993 – Abidin Dino, Turkish-French painter and
illustrator (b. 1913) ·
1993 – Félix
Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st President
of Ivory Coast (b. 1905) ·
1995 – Kathleen Harrison,
English actress (b. 1892) ·
1997 – Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer and
manager (b. 1942) ·
1998 – John Addison, English-American composer and
conductor (b. 1920) ·
1998 – Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and
endocrinologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1925) ·
2003 – Carl F. H. Henry American journalist
and theologian (b. 1913) ·
2003 – Azie Taylor Morton,
American educator and politician, 36th Treasurer
of the United States (b. 1933) ·
2004 – Frederick Fennell,
American conductor and educator (b. 1914) ·
2004 – Jerry Scoggins, American singer and
guitarist (b. 1913) ·
2004 – Jay Van Andel, American businessman and
philanthropist, co-founded Amway (b. 1924) ·
2005 – Bud Carson, American football player and
coach (b. 1931) ·
2006 – Jeane Kirkpatrick,
American academic and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b.
1926) ·
2008 – Herbert Hutner, American banker and lawyer
(b. 1908) ·
2010 – Elizabeth Edwards,
American lawyer and author (b. 1949) ·
2010 – Kari Tapio, Finnish singer (b. 1945)[10] ·
2011 – Harry Morgan, American actor (b. 1915) ·
2012 – Roelof Kruisinga, Dutch physician and
politician, Dutch Minister of Defence (b. 1922) ·
2012 – Ralph Parr, American colonel and pilot (b.
1924) ·
2012 – Marty Reisman, American table tennis player
and author (b. 1930) ·
2012 – Saul
Steinberg, American businessman and financier (b. 1939) ·
2013 – Édouard Molinaro,
French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928) ·
2013 – Chick Willis, American singer and guitarist
(b. 1934) ·
2014 – Mark Lewis,
American author and educator (b. 1954) ·
2015 – Jesse C. Deen, American soldier and
politician (b. 1922) ·
2015 – Gerhard Lenski, American sociologist and
academic (b. 1924) ·
2015 – Hyron Spinrad, American astronomer and
academic (b. 1934) ·
2015 – Peter Westbury, English race car driver (b.
1938) ·
2016 – Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani recording artist,
television personality, fashion designer, occasional actor, singer-songwriter
and preacher. (b. 1964) ·
2016 – Greg Lake, English musician (b. 1947) ·
2019 – Ron Saunders, English football player and
manager (b.1932) [11] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Armed Forces Flag
Day (India) ·
Christian feast day: o Ambrose o December
7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Eve of
the Immaculate Conception-related observances: o Day of the
Little Candles, begins after sunset (Colombia) ·
International
Civil Aviation Day ·
National Heroes Day (East Timor) ·
National
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (United States) ·
Spitak Remembrance
Day (Armenia) |
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